from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.

intransitive v. To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.

transitive v. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

transitive v. To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Hence To put under ecclesiastical ban or anathema; excommunicate; condemn or sentence to the disabilities of excommunication.

To bring or place a curse upon; blight or blast with a curse or malignant evils; vex, harass, or afflict with great calamities.

To utter imprecations; affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance; use blasphemous or profane language; swear.

n. The expression of a wish of evil to another; an imprecation of evil; a malediction.

n. Evil which has been solemnly invoked upon one.

n. That which brings or causes evil or severe affliction or trouble; a great evil; a bane; a scourge: the opposite of blessing: as, strong drink is a curse to millions.

n. Condemnation; sentence of evil or punishment.

n. Literally, a cress: in popular use identified with curse, an imprecation, and used only as a symbol of utter worthlessness in certain negative expressions: as, “not worth a curse,” “to care not a curse,” etc.

Examples

* They go challenge a demon in hell to cure them of the curse but how can I explain how they found out they had the curse * Alezander already knows, Tyler and Jeremy don't* so far I came up with that they visit a graveyard and they find Alezander's grave when it really is Alezander's phantom's grave * that's part of the curse* I think that's kinda stupid so what are other suggestions? don't answer unless you can say something helpful.

When I go I hope I have every opportinity to yell, scream, cuss ( "curse" is an incorrect term used widely now-a-days) and do at least a 5.6 off my nursing home or girlfriend's bed, preferrably shocking the whole town by being in early Greet Olympic attire.